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another healthy exchange of perspective on what can one do with getting patents on "technology" or "innovation" without ever having to make vapor-ware into actual real world products. #law #legal #intellectualproperty

Northeastern University: Book publishing’s AI reckoning in full force. Few know what to do.. “Now, generative AI is forcing book publishing into a long overdue reckoning over what counts as original human work and how the tech should be ethically deployed or disclosed at all stages of the book production pipeline.”

Tangible versus Virtual. Here's a great example of how the promise of streaming has been betrayed by cartelized corporate greed. First photo is my recently delivered box set of "The Expanse", 19 DVD's all for $32.40 USd including tax & shipping. Second photo is the cost to stream all 6 seasons contained in the DVD set, from Fandango at $59.99.

I acquired a bit ago a nicely working DVD/BluRay/CD player with HDMI & spdif audio outputs for $15 from my local Goodwill, hooked into the 55" display & big speakers in my studio, for a home theater vibe. Nice thing is that it is also easy to rip DVD's to digital video files, and with Jellyfin on my OpenMediaVault server, easy to stream to other devices too. Versus a bigger payment for just a corporation's potentially rescinded promise towards future viewing access.

Once upon a time, given the relative costs of materials/time/energy/labor needed to create tangible formats like optical discs, made one of the big selling points of streaming, besides obvious 'convenience', was that it was almost always less expensive for the consumer. While streaming certainly has costs to produce - needing lots of servers & CDN's for encoding, hosting & delivery - this should still end up being a fraction per stream compared to what it takes to manufacture, package & deliver optical discs made out of plastics and metals. So seems to me what we've seen of late is the media corporations raising in concert rates for streaming, with profit margins on these ballooning, while the last of the optical disc manufacturing plants, have reduced their profit margins to the bare minimum. The result is an inversion in pricing between the tangible & virtual options for many releases now. And for those of us interested in lasting & ready access to specific works of art, and for those of us that value "digital sovereignty", against a marketing system working to make these things more scarce, the tangible options are looking increasingly attractive.

Weekend Reading from TechAptitude!

Check out Quantum Technologies – Intellectual Property Considerations

Article explores how the application of property rights in Quantum is all about implementing strategies to create an ideal balance between enabling sharing and the free flow in technical information, technology transfer, while at the same time encouraging healthy competition and innovation. https://techaptitude.substack.com/p/quantum-technologies-intellectual?r=vn8b8 #Quantum #QuantumComputing #IP #TradeMarks #QuantumStrategy #IntellectualProperty #Innovation #Competition

NiemanLab: The emerging AI content licensing market puts news publishers in a “double bind,” a new report warns. “‘Same Gatekeepers, New Tollbooths: Mapping the AI Content Licensing Market’ explores the emerging market for content licensing, arguing that news publishers are currently in a ‘double bind’: The same big tech companies that are developing commercial AI products and stripping […]

#ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #IntellectualProperty #Ethics

This month on the Byte High, No Limit blog, AI ethics: https://andrewowen.net/blog/my-personal-code-for-the-ethical-use-of-ai/

The Conversation: Today’s bans on DIY repairs of everything from cell phones to tractors grew out of Hollywood’s fear of videotaping. “As a scholar of American culture, I found through my research that the origins of the legal and technical obstacles to product repairs lie in debates in the 1980s over new media and copyright guardrails.”

NME: CBS pause copyright takedowns on YouTube uploads of Stephen Colbert’s ‘Only in Monroe’ show after public outcry. “CBS has paused takedown notices issued to YouTube users uploading bootleg clips of Stephen Colbert‘s recent stint on Only in Monroe. Colbert’s long-running late-night show aired for the last time on Thursday (May 21), and during his final monologue, he reflected on […]